About the masks - I can't speak to the motives of people I have never seen, but in this town it is established fact that the police have undercover operatives among the war protesters. Why they consider this necessary for a daily gathering of *maybe* twenty college students that does not even take place in their jusrisdiction remains unexplained and, even scarier, nobody is asking the question. (The matter came to light when a DA was accused of pointing them out to protesters, and was suspended.)
Anyway, I don't want to debate the need or lack of it for either the masks or the undercover officers, but it does occur to me that people may be worried about being declared enemy operatives or whatever under the Patriot Act... it's certainly not outside the realm of *my* paranoid imaginings. Although the people I have seen down there seem pretty New Mexican to me. John Stanley writes: > The only people I have a problem with are the extremist anti war supporters > with their own masked agendas. Some of these people have their faces masked > during the protests, and that bothers me. > > Doug, the people of the United States have the RIGHT to protest against any > government policy. Personally, I dont like the protestors, and I am glad we > are in Iraq; but that does not mean what they are doing is illegal. > > Secondly, I believe the constitution gives the right to the people to decide > what kind of government they want. So your whole overthrow argument does not > make sense. If the people decide the government, and the majority of the > people decide against the current one, then it is legal to change it. Even > though that is not the case in this situation. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: samcfug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:48 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Liberate Iraq > > > Offended? So be it. I stand by my position that the Anti-war Protestors are > all > cowards. To call them brave is absolutely ludicrous. The "passive > resistance" > types are also cowards. If you are so against our country, perhaps you also > should be "exported" The so-called protests have gone far beyond our > Constitutionally protected "Free Speech" and now are in the vicinity of > Advocating the violent overthrow of our government, which is better defined > as > sedition. > The pledge of allegiance to the flag of the Untied Stated of America, > introduced > to all Americans from the first grade of school and onwards is being > violated by > these cowards, further making them disloyal, liars and, again, cowards and > seditionists. > > | You comments honestly offend me as an American. "export all these > | socialist protesters"? So we should slap the ideals of this country in > | the face by renouncing the fundamental freedom to disagree with our > | government's actions? In fact punishing those that do? > | > | Who else would be "exported" (nice, sanitized word there by the way)? > | What other group's expressions of free speech annoy you? > | > | Being anti-war has never been synonymous with "coward". I see a great > | bravery in those willing to express their disatisfaction against public > | opinion. Regardless of whether I agree with them or not I feel proud > | when I see protesters. Proud that this country protects that right and > | pround that my fellow Americans are still strong enough to exercise it. > | > | Jim Davis > | > | > | > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
